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UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week. The U.N. health agency defines an international emergency as an “extraordinary event” that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response. https://apnews.com/0f0f07b30c8cdd2b0f30c6081acc7599